Improve windows update performance

[Usey95]

Now it seems like the way to update windows is to reinstall the whole app by nsis which behaves differently in win7/10/11.
Sometimes it's slow, sometimes it will alert permission dialog by system. It's not "quiet" at all.

The update experience in Mac is good, how can I achieve that in windows? Or is there any other way to "hot update"?

Thank you.

[mmaietta]

I'm not sure I follow. Is the differential update not working? The only thing that was changed recently was the signature validation in #8051

On mac, it's an entirely different process as the zip has to be served over localhost to the native electron updater

[Usey95]

I'm not sure I follow. Is the differential update not working? The only thing that was changed recently was the signature validation in #8051

On mac, it's an entirely different process as the zip has to be served over localhost to the native electron updater

2024-03-10 18:01:37.768 [info] File has 5214 changed blocks 2024-03-10 18:01:37.785 [info] Full: 145,907.81 KB, To download: 105,893.78 KB (73%) 2024-03-10 18:02:00.795 [info] New version 1.0.0-alpha.7680 has been downloaded to C:\Users\hi\AppData\Local\updater\pending\Setup 1.0.0-alpha.7680.exe

I guess differential update is working as the log prints.

I set autoInstallOnAppQuit = true. When user quits the app, a promt will show to allow changes to make by the app. And then the desktop will flash twice to complete slient install. It takes about 10s to do that and in this duration the shortcut is unable to use.

So, this update progress is not silent. We don't want our user to notice our update since we update quite frequently. Is there anything I'm missing or is it because of the alpha version or buildnumber difference? Or everyone else just use there own script to patch app.asar or something. I didn't see much complains about it.

[Usey95]

After a deeper dug, we gave up NSIS silent auto update.

It is not possible not showing prompts since it will modify file inside Program Files.